The Best Wicket keeper?

[sayon basak]

Who was the best behind the stumps?

 

[subshakerz]

Knott

 

[Thala_0710]

Jack Russell

 

[sayon basak]

Jack Russell

Just added Jack Russell and Jeff Dujon.

 

[sayon basak]

 

[Chin Music]

The thing with Russell is that probably his best action was standing up to Gloucestershire seamers in domestic cricket. Not saying he wasn't a fine keeper in test cricket until his last couple of years but I think it had more impact in Gloucestershire's successful years around the turn of the century in one day cricket.

 

[ashley bach]

Saw Dujon drop an absolute sitter yesterday when watching some old tape so it's not him.
Never really saw Knott play much but his name has echoed forever as one of the great glovesman.

 

[sayon basak]

Think its close between TG Evans and Knott.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I refuse to try and rate keepers I haven't watched because it's impossible. So, Healy for me.

 

[Northerner]

Bob Taylor was the best, better than Knott, just not as good a batsman, he stood up to the stumps with fast bowler Ole Mortensen bowling really quick. he was a genius behind the sticks, if he had played for Surrey or Middlesex he would have got more recognition,

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Kirmani, because my elders kept (pun intended) saying stories of him when India came to play an ODI match at my home ground, Albion, 1982

I didn't even know what was special, he didn't bat nor took any catches behind the stumps.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Oldfield, Tallon both deserving of a mention. Would go Evans from here I think.

 

[sayon basak]

Kirmani, because my elders kept (pun intended) saying stories of him when India came to play an ODI match at my home ground, Albion, 1982

I didn't even know what was special, he didn't bat nor took any catches behind the stumps.

Then what were the stories about?

 

[capt_Luffy]

Jack Russell

I believe I read from a number of respected English posters (Peterhrt and Grecian), that Russell's keeping was sufficiently overrated. He was great against pace, but not so much against spin; and it even cost England a match, resulting him being dropped.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Think its close between TG Evans and Knott.

I am pretty sure that at worst Bob Taylor was a slightly better keeper than Knott. Tallon, Oldfield and Ray Jennings (though uncapped) also deserves mentions. Also pretty sure Dujon wasn't World Class to spinners, would rate Dhoni ahead as a keeper.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Then what were the stories about?

The main one:
The best gloveman that they've seen live (there was an Indian bias back then because my village is majority Indian descent, me included)

Other stories were too exaggerated. Let's leave it there.

 

[Daemon]

I believe I read from a number of respected English posters (Peterhrt and Grecian), that Russell's keeping was sufficiently overrated. He was great against pace, but not so much against spin; and it even cost England a match, resulting him being dropped.

Those are not respected English posters. We usually defer to @sledger when it comes to English cricket knowledge and expertise.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Prasanna Jayawardene should be on the list.

 

[Coronis]

Those are not respected English posters. We usually defer to @sledger when it comes to English cricket knowledge and expertise.

English? I always thought he was some outer space potato man

 

[sledger]

Those are not respected English posters. We usually defer to @sledger when it comes to English cricket knowledge and expertise.

And you are right to do so. I laugh at the pitiful knowledge of these peons.